Griffin Byatt
Sr Manager, Cloud Security at Amazon
Langley, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGriffin Byatt is a senior cloud security leader with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and hardening large-scale systems at Amazon, currently serving as Sr Manager, Cloud Security. A polyglot developer comfortable in Ruby, Python, and Elixir, he brings deep application security expertise—demonstrated by notable contributions to the sobelow static analysis tool for Phoenix, where he improved route parsing, secret detection, and XSS/SQLi checks. Griffin blends offensive and defensive perspectives from his NCC Group consulting background with operational security at hyperscale, consistently translating findings into pragmatic engineering fixes. His unusual pairing of a film and communications education with technical craftsmanship gives him an uncommon talent for storytelling around risk and remediation, making security accessible to engineers and executives alike. Based in Langley, Washington, he maintains an active open-source presence and a developer-first approach to secure-by-design systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Radio, Television, and Digital Communication, Bachelor of Science (BS), Radio, Television, and Digital Communication at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (13)
code-analysis10
static-analysis10
text-parsing10
parsing10
vulnerability-detection10
html-parsing10
par10
file-parsing10
phoenix-framework10
elixir10
security10
leex9
test-automation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nccgroup/sobelow
Apr 2017 - Oct 2021
Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:7 releases, 6 reviews, 462 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Griffin primarily worked on implementing security-focused features for the Phoenix Framework, as evidenced by the contributions to the `sobelow` repository. The user reorganized and enhanced route parsing functionalities, improved the detection of hardcoded secrets, added checks for potential vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting (XSS) and command injection, and implemented preliminary SQL injection checks. Moreover, the user refactored and modularized code related to file and template handling.
phoenix-frameworksecurityelixirfocusedphoenix
tvvocold/fictious
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
A clone of Medium
Contributions:110 commits in 15 days
reactzonestricksnodejsredux
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